Device for making lemonade



(No Model.) f 2 Sheets-Sheet 21 J; C. GUNDELFINGER. DEVICE FOR MAKINGLEMONADE No. 599,605. I

Patented Feb. 22, 1898, y

Nrref STATES DEVICE'FOR MAKING LYEVIONADE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,605, dated February22, 1898.

Application filed August 30, 1897. Serial No. 650,065. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN C. GUNDELFINGER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Linn, in the county of Osage and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices forMakingLemonade, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

My invention seeks to provide a device by which ice may be crushed,lemons strained and squeezed, and the liquid mixed. This object isattained by the use of the device illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings; and the invention consists in certain novel featureshereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings referred to, Figure l is an elevation of the completedevice. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the can on line xx of Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a detail view of the cover for the can. Fig. 4 is a detailview of the bottom of the can, and Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of thebase-board. Y

The base-board A is formed with a groove or depression B in its uppersurface to receive and hold the glass inwhich the liquid is dispensed.The board will usually be secured to a store-counter; but for family useit will be left free, so that it may be placed upon any convenient standor support. Upon this base-board I secure the'l legs or standards C onthe opposite sides of the groove B, and to the upper ends of thesestandards I secure the can D. This can D has an arm E rising from itsupper end, and to the end of this arm I pivot a lever F. Pivoted to anddepending from this lever is a plunger-rod G, having a crushing-disk Hsecured to its lower end. This disk H is of such a diameter as to litclosely within the can, and its convex side is provided with crushingteeth or projections I, as shown. At a point just about the lower limitofthe stroke of this plunger I provide the concave strainer J, which issecured to a rock-shaft K, journaled in the sides of the can and havingone end formed into an operating crank-arm L; Below the crusher andstrainer is a rotary dasher or mixer consisting of a vertical shaft M,having its ends journaled, respectively, in the bottom of the can and across-bar N secured in the can, and wings or paddles O, secured to andradiating from the said shaft. On the upper end of the shaft M is agear-wheel P, meshing with a pinion Q on theinner end of a shaft R,journaled in the side of the can and extending through the same. On theouter end of this shaft is a pinion S,meshing witha driving gearwheel T,mounted on the side of the can and provided with a handle U. The bottomof the can is provided with a number of discharge-openings V, andpivoted centrally on the under side of the can-bottom is a damper orvalve W, adapted to close said openings and having a handle X projectingto one side. Pivoted on a shoulder Y of the arm E are the cover-sectionsa b, adapted to close around the plunger-rod Gr and close the top of thecan. pivoted on one section and engaging a staple d on the othersection.

The manner of using the device will be readily understood. The valve inthe lower end of the can being closed, a piece of ice is placed in thestrainer and the crushing-disk then brought down forcibly on the same,thereby breaking up the ice into small particles. The crank-arm L isthen turned so as to invert the strainer and drop the ice to the bottomof the can. The strainer is then returned to its normal position and apiece of lemon placed therein. The crushing-disk is then brought downslowly on the lemon, the

juice being thereby squeezed therefrom and caused to pass through thestrainer into the lower mixing portion of the can. Sugar is then addedand the handle U rapidly turned. The gearing will thus be set in motionand the dasher rotated, so that the several ingredients will bethoroughly mixed, after which the Valve in the bottom of the can isopened and the mixture discharged into a glass previously placedthereunder in the groove of the base-board.

It will be readily appreciated that the device is of a simple andcompact construction and that by its use lemonade may be rapidly andeasily made. A cap may be placed over the gearing within the can toprevent the same being checked by the particles of ice or anylemon-seeds which may happen to drop from thestrainer.

Having thus described my invention, what The sections are fastened by ahook c,

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rotary dasher mounted on the bottom of` the can, gearing mounted on theside of the can and connected with said dasher to rotate the same, arook-shaft mounted in the can above the dasher, a strainer secured onsaid roekshaft, and a crushing-disk mounted above the strainer andadapted to cooperate therewith.

JOHN C. GUNDELFINGER.

Witnesses:

J No. FENER, II. LOCK.

